Moby Dick by Herman Melville, ⭐⭐⭐
Read in July 2020 Well, at least I can say I've read this classic. It is far too long with way too much detail. Putting my English Literature student hat on, I can appreciate it as an important work full of symbolism, allegory and other literary devices. But, personally, even though I did find some unintentional innuendo amusing, I feel that overall this is not a book to be read for enjoyment because it is just so dense and the many, many passages about whale anatomy and behaviours etc were a bit textbook-ish and felt never-ending. I chose an audiobook version of Moby Dick (narrator: Anthony Heald) and that made the experience more bearable. If I'd been reading it myself, I may not have made it to the end. Occasionally, while reading, I wanted to recommend The Old Man and the Sea instead which shares some plot similarities. I really dislike that book but at least it felt like it had more action. I recently had a conversation on here about treating classics differently...